2018-06-30

As I was walking to the bus station I realized I had left some
things home so I headed back. When I was walking towards the
building I live in I saw Liisa leave Emilia's backyard. When
she saw me she was standing on the parking lot of the row
houses she lives in. She just stood there and watched me. I
didn't say anything to her since I saw that Emilia's
grandmother was still on the backyard. Unfortunately I haven't
had much chances to interact with the girls this summer.

Later on the bus stop while I saw Emilia and her grandmother
walk toward the bus stop. Emilia was carrying what I thought
was some kind of sunshade or something and the grandmother was
carrying a bag so these led me to believe that they were on
their way to the beach. I was terrified since I've never
really been in close proximity with the grandmother and last
summer the girls had said that she wants a picture of me. On
top of this I almost never hear her talk in a normal way, only
angry yelling. While still around fifteen meters from the stop
Emilia saw me and pulled up her hood. I don't know if this is
because she doesn't want to see me or me to see her or if it's
because she doesn't want her grandmother knowing who I am.
When they got to the bus stop Emilia sat at the end of the
bench so as to face the other way. I made some space on the
bench so the grandmother would have space to sit as well, she
is quite a large woman to say the least. She thanked me and I
told her it's nothing.

Emilia talks to her grandmother in English and her voice is
more girlish and has much higher pitch when she does. Finally
the bus came and they stepped in and I followed them. Emilia
had a very cute Hello Kitty cover on her bus card. She went
to sit on the very first seats and her grandmother went to sit
to the more accessible area meant for the more elderly people.
She asked Emilia to come sit next to her but she didn't.

We all got out at the final stop which is at the train
station. The station has a mall next to it and I saw them go
in the there and I headed to the train that would leave the
soonest. Just as the train arrived I saw the two of them come
to the platform as well. Now I realized what it was that
Emilia was carrying, it was a rainbow flag. The platform was
full of people with all kinds of rainbow apparel. Just now I
realized that there is some kind of gay pride event in the
city and apparently Emilia was going there. The train was
packed and at our destination I only saw a glimpse of Emilia
and her grandmother walking along with the big crowd.